The Black Index

Bys: Cooks, Bridget R. and Watson, Sarah

The artists featured in The Black Index --Dennis Delgado, Alicia Henry, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Titus Kaphar, Whitfield Lovell, and Lava Thomas--build upon the tradition of Black self-representation as an antidote to colonialist images. Their translations of photography challenge the medium's long-assumed qualities of objectivity, legibility, and identification. Using drawing, sculpture, and digital technology to transform the recorded image, these artists question our reliance on photography as a privileged source for documentary objectivity and historical understanding. The works featured here offer an alternative practice--a Black index. In the hands of these six artists, the index still serves as a finding aid for information about Black subjects, but it also challenges viewers' desire for classification and, instead, redirects them toward alternative information.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3777435961
• ISBN13: 9783777435961
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Hirmer Verlag GmbH
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.0" x 10.1"